A MICROHISTORY OF DECLINE. ATTITUDE OF JEWS IN AND AROUND DZIERŻONIÓW TOWARDS POLAND IN THE YEARS 1967−1968
A MICROHISTORY OF DECLINE. ATTITUDE OF JEWS IN AND AROUND DZIERŻONIÓW TOWARDS POLAND IN THE YEARS 1967−1968

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the fate of the Jewish population settled in Lower Silesia,Poland, during the anti-Semitic campaign of 1967–1968, focusing on two towns: Dzierżoniówand Bielawa. Through an analysis of archival sources, the text reconstructs the fate of individ-ual members of this community, including its leaders, beginning in 1967 (during the Six-DayWar) and continuing through the following months, till the events of March 1968. The papertakes a special interest in the attitudes of Jews towards Poland, as well as in the governmentanti-Semitic campaign and accusations of disloyalty to Poland. It also presents the experienc-es of hostility, as well as the consequences of stigmatization by anti-Semitism. The analysisexemplifies the impact of the anti-Semitic campaign on a small, provincial Jewish community,living far from Warsaw and the student protests in 1968 or the centre of communist authority.

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